AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2432, 21 January 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[_Br Tblesbaph.] [Per s.s. Alhambra, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, January 14, The Hon. James Henty, M.L.0., one of the pioneers of the colony, died suddenly on the morning of the 12th, of apoplexy. He rose as usual, and entered notes in a diary, and was found ahortly afterwards lying across a bod quite dead. Ho will bo buried to-day in the cemetery at Kew. At a scecial meeting of the Melbourne Cricket Club, a proposal of the Hon. Ivo Bligh to bring out a mixed amateur and professional team was unanimously adopted. The committee of the club were empowered to make all necessary arrangements. The recent action of the Commissioner of Ettilways in stopping free passes is unfavorably commented on in the Press. It is acknowledged that the system has been much abused by many, but the passes being stopped in some cases is likely to cause annoyance and unfavorable comments in other colonies. The report of the Board on storing explosives advises that newly invented explosives should not be permitted to enter the colony until reported on by experts. They consider glycerine compounds should he stored below the surface of the ground. The committee of the Melbourne Hospital adopted the report of Dr. Miller declaring the statement of Dr. Youl that the hospital was saturated with erysipelas was much exaggerated, but nevertheless decided to hold an inquiry on the general question of the sanitary condition of the building. Steps are about to he taken to deepen the South Channel, owing to the difficulty the

largest sized steamers have in entering the port. The Phillip Nelson was unable to visit Melbourne owing to shallow water. The two outgoing mail steamers lost several hours from the same cause.

The Khedive, with English mails, encountered severe weather in the Bay of Biscay, and hence arrived after contract time. The mails for New Zealand go forward by the Alhambra,

SYDNEY, January 14, Sir John Robertson was elected for Mudgee unopposed. He met with an enthusiastic reception, triumphal arches being erected in the streets.

The heat at Albury during the week has been intense, and was greater than ever before experienced.

The “ Sydney Herald’s ” special reporter, who visited Hanging Bock, reports nothing further to record, the rich yield recently obtained being from a small patch about one acre in extent. Much prospecting is being carried on.

The regatta under the auspices of the Russian Admiral took place on the 10th. The Russian sailors won every contest except one.

The railway returns for the past year, published, show a net income exceeding expenses by £673.000. The public debt incurred for all purposes is £14,897,000. The railways yielded an excess on working expenses equal almost to the entire interest on the debt of the colony.

ADELAIDE, January 14. The first case of smallpox which occurred on the quarantine ground, Torren’s Island, was that of Johnson, a steerage passenger. After sickening three days he developed the disease. The guard at Bound Island is doubled.

PERTH, January 14. It is stated that Joubert is in treaty with the Government to construct a narrow gauge line to Albany in consideration of a land grant of two million acres.